Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle
Developer	Amazon
Manufacturer	Foxconn
Product family	Kindle
Type	E-reader
Release date	November 19, 2007 (Kindle 1)
Introductory price	US$399; equivalent to $586 in 2023 (Kindle 1)
Operating system	Kindle firmware, utilizing Linux kernel; Latest versions Kindle 1: 1.2.1 ; Kindle 2, DX: 2.5.8 ; Kindle Keyboard: 3.4.3 ; Kindle 4, 5: 4.1.4 ; Kindle Touch: 5.3.7.3 ; Kindle Paperwhite 1: 5.6.1.1 ; Kindle 7, Paperwhite 2: 5.12.2.2 ; Kindle Voyage: 5.13.6 ; Kindle 8; Paperwhite 3; Oasis 1, 2: 5.16.2.1.1 ; Kindle 10, 11 (2022); Paperwhite 4, 5; Oasis 3: 5.17.1 ; Kindle Scribe: 5.17.2 ; Kindle 11 (2024), Paperwhite 6: 5.17.1.0.2 ;
Online services	Kindle Store
Website	amazon.com/kindle

Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, Audible audiobooks, and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store.^[3] The hardware platform, which Amazon subsidiary Lab126 developed, began as a single device in 2007. Currently, it comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays and Kindle applications on all major computing platforms. All Kindle devices integrate with Windows and macOS file systems and Kindle Store content and, as of March 2018, the store had over six million e-books available in the United States.^[4]

^ Source Code Notice Archived March 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Amazon.com, Retrieved June 1, 2017.
^ "Amazon.com Help Kindle E-Reader Software Updates". Amazon. Retrieved November 28, 2024.
^ Dudley, Brier (November 19, 2007). "Kindle hacking, iPod parallels and a chat with the Kindle director". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on December 21, 2010. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
^ Kindle Store: Kindle eBooks Archived December 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 30, 2018.

[1] Source Code Notice Archived March 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Amazon.com, Retrieved June 1, 2017.

[2] "Amazon.com Help Kindle E-Reader Software Updates". Amazon. Retrieved November 28, 2024.

[3] Dudley, Brier (November 19, 2007). "Kindle hacking, iPod parallels and a chat with the Kindle director". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on December 21, 2010. Retrieved December 28, 2010.

[Kindle_Store:_Kindle_eBooks-4] Kindle Store: Kindle eBooks Archived December 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 30, 2018.

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